Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Quotations
Music
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
